Antonius van den Broek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antonius van den Broek

Dutch physicist and lawyer

Date of Birth: 04-May-1870

Place of Birth: Zoetermeer, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 25-Oct-1926

Profession: lawyer, physicist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Antonius Johannes van den Broek (4 May 1870, Zoetermeer – 25 October 1926, Bilthoven) was a Dutch amateur physicist notable for being the first who realized that the number of an element in the periodic table (now called atomic number) corresponds to the charge of its atomic nucleus.
This hypothesis was published in 1911 and inspired the experimental work of Henry Moseley, who found good experimental evidence for it by 1913.